Steve Mirsky: Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 6th, 2015. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode. Alan Smale: Along with some historians I think that a great deal of history is ...

Former Circleville resident Jerrel C. Anderson is a longtime researcher on the archaeology of the Midwest and is a member of multiple archaeological societies in Ohio and West Virginia. At the Ohio ...

It was a curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want ...

A study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms that ...

Vieira has spent thousands of hours researching mounds throughout the world—some geometric earthen constructions 50 acres and larger, and he has been amazed by the mathematical and engineering ...

The site of a three-story-high earthen structure known as Dyar Mound now lies beneath central Georgia’s Lake Oconee, a reservoir created by a dam built in the 1970s. Before the dam’s construction, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Objects excavated from mounds built by ancient Native American tribes in Ohio on display on Jan. 19, 2023, at the Ohio History ...